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Pyongyang Blackmail

Updated June 18, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Pyongyang's announcement this week that it will continue to develop, test and sell ballistic missiles until the United States lifts its long-time trade embargo took the art of crude international blackmail to new heights.

"If the United States really wants to prevent our missile export," said the state-controlled North Korean press agency, "it should lift the economic embargo as early as possible and make a compensation for the losses to be caused by discontinued missile export." Effectively spitting on...